Happy St. Valentine's from Marie Wintzer, well not really, but close! Random fallen words or as the page turns?

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

AH those French ladies know how to use the English language to their advantage.  This reminds me of a very funny event.  Once I went to a swimming pool in England and saw a sign that said "No Heavy Petting in the Pool", and for the life of me could not understand what it meant.  I asked a lady in the pool what the sign meant, and she slaps me across the face.  “Wise guy”, she said, and did the breast stroke to the other side of the pool, and told the life guard to keep an eye on me.  I really thought that there was a misspelling, and it should read; No Heavy Peeing in the Pool.  I thought the English were clever and maybe allow light peeing in the pool.  Or at least in one corner of the pool.

Later I found out what it meant, but I still can not believe that there was so much petting in UK pools that they actually had to make a sign to make people stop!  What is it with British people that if you put them in water, they get an urge to fondle each other?  This must explain why there are fewer swimming pools in backyards of UK home than in America!

Val can maybe enlighten us on the phoneme. 

Thank you very much Marie, at least the thought was there!  The balding middle-aged man part is too close for confort.

 

 

[Marie Wintzer]

Books I didn't like always get "punished" with the chop. And if they end up in blogs as funny as this one I couldn't be happier. At least they're good for something.

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Katerina, Happy you recieved the wooden ballon.  There is the other half still flotting around in the postal system somewhere in the world.  Let's see if it ever shows up.

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

No need to buy one, I have plenty, and will give you one this weekend as a leaving gift.

[Mim Golub Scalin]

Dean, thanks for alerting me to this post. I love Marie's mail art piece and the story about the pool. What fun. Hmm, I'm thinking that those 1€ trashy novels I saw over at the Archives bookstore. I need to buy a couple to chop up.

[Marie Wintzer]

trashy novels are the best for mail art and they happily take the chop, you'll see ;-))

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

I think we all agree that it is a wonderful piece, and I am happy to have it.  On top of it, Marie's work has inspired me to do something with all the trashy novels I have sitting in my cellar.  thank you again, Marie.

[Marie Wintzer]

Arigatooo!

(Oh, and I just wanted to say that heavy petting is not representative of the kinds of books I'm reading) ;-))

[De Villo Sloan]

Marie, it's a REALLY excellent cut-up/altered text piece. It works for me.

[Marie Wintzer]

"and did the breast stroke to the other side of the pool" :-)))) 

Dean, I can't stop laughing, I'm choking on my morning tartine et confiture, thank you for this great blog!!

[Marie Wintzer]

What?? So you're saying that petting has got nothing to do with pets?? :-o